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B. F. TABER.

UMBRELLA DRIP 0UP.

No. 348,600. Patented Sept. 7, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

I DAVID F. TABER, OF ATLANTA, AS SIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND F. WILLIAM MEMMLER, OF MARIETTA, GEORGIA.

UMBRELLA DRIP-CUP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 348,600 dated September 7 1886.

I Application filed November 524, 1885. Serial No. 183,859. (No model.)

To alt whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID F. TABER, of Atlanta, in the county of Fulton, in the State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Umbrella Drip Cups, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming a part thereof, in Which- Figure 1 is a side sectional elevation, showing the application of my improved umbrella drip-cup to the umbrella. Fig. 2 is a plan view. Figs. 3 and 4 represent modifications.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

The object of my invention is to provide for the application to umbrella tips of a cup which may be readily applied and removed, for receiving water dripping from the unibrella-cover and re tainingit.

My invention consists ina flexible rubber bag or receiver provided at one end with a soft-rubber cup adapted to receive the tip of the umbrella-stick, and having at the opposite end a rigid funnel provided with means for retaining it on the end of the umbrella-stick in position to receive the water dripping from the covering of the umbrella. The cup A is made of elastic rubber,and adapted to receive the end of the umbrella-stick B. The periphery of the cup A, near its top, is provided with a circumferential groove, a. A flexible bag, 0, is stretched over the cup A and secured by tying or otherwise to the said cup, so that it is water-tight. The opposite end of the rubber bag 0 is stretched over the smaller end of the funnel D and secured thereto by tying or in any other convenient Way, the funncl D being provided with a circumferential groove into which the material of the bag 0 is pressed by the thread or wire used to tie the bag on the funnel. The funnel D is provided with several imvardly-projecting softrubber fingers, b, which embrace the umbrellastick, leaving between the fingers spaces for allowing the water to drip into the bag 0 through the funnel D. These fingers hold the funnel D in its position on the umbrella-stick with sufficient firmness to keep the bag 0 extended. The funnel D is large enough to receive all of the water dripping from the covering of the umbrella.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3, the fastening device for holding the funnel D in its place on the umbrella-stick B consists of a pin, 0, passing transversely through the funnel and the umbrella-stick.

In Fig. 4 there is shown a device for supporting the funnel D in its place on the umbrella-stick, which consists of two or more chains, d, which are received in hooks projecting from the umbrellastick and from the edge of the funnel D.

As various methods of holding the funnel D in its position on the umbrella-stick B may be employed, I do not limitor confine myinventiou to any particular form of fastening.

My improved umbrella drip cup may be readily applied to an umbrellastick, and the funnel may be secured in either of the ways I have described, or the drip-cup may be readily removed for the purpose of emptying it of its contents by loosening the funnel D and the cup A; and when the drip-cup is not in use it may be folded together compactly, so that it may be readily carried in the pocket.

Although I have mentioned rubber as the material of which the drip-cup is composed, I do not confine myself to the use of rubber, as any suitable water-proof material may be used in lieu thereof.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. ,In an umbrella drip-cup, the combination of a cup, A, adapted to receive the tip of the umbrella-stick, the flexible bag 0, at-

tached to the cup A, the funnel D, secured to the open end of the bag 0, and a fastening device for retaining the funnel D upon the umbrella-stick, as herein specified.

2. The combination, in an umbrella dripcup, of an elastic circumferentially-grooved cup, A, a flexible bag, 0, attached thereto, a rigid funnel, D, secured in the open end of the bag 0, and means for holding the funnel D upon the umbrella-stick, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. In an umbrella drip-cup, the combination of the elastic cup A, the flexible bag 0, secured thereto, rigid funnel I), secured to the top of the bag, and the inwardly-projecting flexible fingers b, substantially as herein speci fied.

Vitnesses:

A. Y. LEAKE, J. W. PRITOHETT.

DAVID F. TABER. 

